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how do u access mp3 for the Dash.Do u need a data package

mp3 on Dash
Not sure what is your question? Are you asking how to put mp3 files on you Dash OR How to play an MP3 once it is there. Following are answers to both of these:
1. You should have a micro SD card by now on your Dash. If not, buy one and insert in provided slot. Take a 2 GB one as not sure currently how 4 GB performs on it. Then connect your phone to your computer via supplied mini USB cable. You will see phone icon in file folder list. Expand Storage Card there. You can copy mp3 files there in any folder of your choice.
2. After MP3 files are copied on your phone (or if they exist there already), you can use in built Windows Media player to play them. Simply run Windows Media player and point to mp3 files and play. You can even create playlists for frequently listened-to songs. Alternatively, you can download TCPMP software on it and use. I also recommend SRS WOW software to enrich headphone listening experience. Both TCPMP and SRS WOW can be searched in this forum. You can even set MP3s as your ringtones.
Have fun!
Cheers,
KC

How do you covert and add ripped dvds to dash?

I have ripped movies from dvds and converted them to mp4 (320 X 240). I then added them to my storage card through windows media player. When I play the movie on my phone using wmp or tcmp, the audio is good but the video is choppy and blurry.
Can anyone please give me advice or point me to a source that may help.

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Ron1455 said:
I have ripped movies from dvds and converted them to mp4 (320 X 240). I then added them to my storage card through windows media player. When I play the movie on my phone using wmp or tcmp, the audio is good but the video is choppy and blurry.
Can anyone please give me advice or point me to a source that may help.
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Buy DVD Wizard
satru said:
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You need DVD wizard............!

I use Clone DVD mobile myself works great. Once you get it installed open it up and click on the + next to other devices. select windows smartphone click next, click the button next to DVD video files and browse to the dvd or Video_TS folder on your hard drive, do any editing there you want or not, click next, click next again, under resolution select 320x240, under enter file name to write click the button and browse to where you want to save the output file, under label put the name of the movie, under letterbox try the 3 settings to see which one you like best and hit go. When its done copy it over to your storage card on your phone with active sync explorer and use TCPMP player or Windows Media Player to watch the movie. The finished file size runs from 400mb to 650mb depending on the movie length. I was very impressed with the quality of the movies on my dash. I'll have to give DVD Wizard a try first I've heard about it. Anyways hope this helps.

Converting ripped DVD's to run on a Dash
Hi,
I tried the trial version of Clone DVD Mobile but got terribly out of sync audio/video also a lot of chunky replay. I wrote to their tech support and got pretty good responses from one of their staff, but the end result was that it didn't work. At first we blamed the retention of the original 29.97fps as too heavy for the Dash's meager processor, but even when I edited the ini file to transcode at 15fps the problem continued.
I have copy of Womble Mpeg Video Wizard DVD on my machine which I generally use for editing TV shows I have recorded to my hard drive before burning to DVD-RW's for watching in the living room.
I poked around with it and it would allow me to transcode the .Vob files to mp4 files for an iPod @ 15fps. That worked like a charm. then just number the files sequentially so they play in the right order.
Basically any video editor or transcoding software that will allow you to convert a .vob file (found by exploring the DVD) to an ipod format will work
Good luck

i havent converted one in a while but i use dvd fab decrypter 4 platinum. which has the option to rip file from dvd to mobile. Then if i want to stetch a widescreen image to it fills the whole screen, i use pocket divx encoder
BTW... there's also a dvd fab mobile edition thats available too!
http://www.dvdfab.com/dvd-fab-mobile.htm

Have not tried it but here's one
GAOTD is offering a free one today...
Not sure how well it is but worth a try.
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/xilisoft-dvd-ripper-ultimate/

Great DVD to movie converter: http://handbrake.fr/ and free!
CorePlayer plays my 368x208 H.264 PSP movies on my Dash. Great.

[Q] What windows media player that can stream blue ray dvds onto my Samsung T.V.?

I am currently loving streaming my video content onto my Samsung T.V. which includes watching youtube onto my big screen T.V. from Samsung Epic Touch 4g. But now I want to stream my blue ray dvds onto my big screen t.v. I know XDA is full of knowledgeable tech geeks. Thank you for helping me out.

There is no way that I'm aware of that you can stream blu rays from a computer to a TV. Two problems arise, one, I don't think you can stream an actual disk, but most importantly, the bit rate of a blu ray disk is so high that I don't think any network is actually capable of handling it. You only option would be to rip the movie and re-encode it to a smaller bit rate and resolution. Why not just hook up a blu ray player to your TV?

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There is no way that I'm aware of that you can stream blu rays from a computer to a TV. Two problems arise, one, I don't think you can stream an actual disk, but most importantly, the bit rate of a blu ray disk is so high that I don't think any network is actually capable of handling it. You only option would be to rip the movie and re-encode it to a smaller bit rate and resolution. Why not just hook up a blu ray player to your TV?
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Alternately you could just rip your blurays to your computer and then find a way to stream them... Or if you can't rip them, download a copy of the movie you already own from thepiratebay or something (legally because you already bought the movie) and throw it on a flash drive (assuming you have something capable of playing that hooked to your TV).
Blu-ray players are pretty cheap these days, as well...

jamice4u said:
I am currently loving streaming my video content onto my Samsung T.V. which includes watching youtube onto my big screen T.V. from Samsung Epic Touch 4g. But now I want to stream my blue ray dvds onto my big screen t.v. I know XDA is full of knowledgeable tech geeks. Thank you for helping me out.
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You cannot stream directly from the disc. You will need to rip them to your hard drive, and encode them into a compatible format. (h.264 in a .mkv container should work) Also if you're streaming wirelessly you'll probably want a dual-band wireless N setup.

sputnik767 said:
the bit rate of a blu ray disk is so high that I don't think any network is actually capable of handling it
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I think you are confusing the bandwidth of HDMI rather than Bluray. The physical 1x read speed of a disc player is 36 Mbps. Raw PCM sound + The max video bitrate comes out to 68 Mbps. If you could stream just the data from the player across to another device any modern 1 Gbps home network could easily handle it and still technically possible.
Problem is your not trying to transfer the data from the disc, since the receiving device needs raw unencrypted video there are 2 problems. HDCP, that should stop you right there. But once HDCP is defeated the raw video stream is yes faster than your network can handle. So we would need something re-compressing that on the fly into something the receiving device has a decoder for.
So yes in short as said already, not going to happen. As D-Tronic said once ou have something in a streamable or compatible for the device format your good to go. Unprotected Blu Rays should be easily ripped back to h.264/.263 containers depending on whats stored on the disc.
.....Though why would you stream a bluray disc to your big screen TV? If you have a bluray player then it should be connected to it. If the only player you have is a PC which is a very finicky setup for Bluray still you just need to connect it to the TV, buy a nice wireless mouse. There are wireless HDMI solutions I never looked to see if they support HDCP. Starting to sound like all you want to know is how to rip bluray discs.

Thank all of you guys for your replies now that I know I am doing something that is technically impossible. I will forget about streaming blue rays on to my computer and just use my hdmi cable from my laptop to my T.V. set. I spent 3 hours researching on google trying to figure this out. One article claimed you could use windows media player to stream the dvds but I could never get window media player to show up on my network. The only thing that showed up was all share. The reason I wanted to do this is because I have a computer and laptop that are capable of playing blue ray and I did not want to spend and more money to duplicate something that my computers should be able to do. I also want to make my desktop computer my main media hub and my main back up service. Since I have a 2TB hard drive in this bad boy. Thanks again for all of your answers.

RainMotorsports said:
I think you are confusing the bandwidth of HDMI rather than Bluray. The physical 1x read speed of a disc player is 36 Mbps. Raw PCM sound + The max video bitrate comes out to 68 Mbps. If you could stream just the data from the player across to another device any modern 1 Gbps home network could easily handle it and still technically possible.
Problem is your not trying to transfer the data from the disc, since the receiving device needs raw unencrypted video there are 2 problems. HDCP, that should stop you right there. But once HDCP is defeated the raw video stream is yes faster than your network can handle. So we would need something re-compressing that on the fly into something the receiving device has a decoder for.
So yes in short as said already, not going to happen. As D-Tronic said once ou have something in a streamable or compatible for the device format your good to go. Unprotected Blu Rays should be easily ripped back to h.264/.263 containers depending on whats stored on the disc.
.....Though why would you stream a bluray disc to your big screen TV? If you have a bluray player then it should be connected to it. If the only player you have is a PC which is a very finicky setup for Bluray still you just need to connect it to the TV, buy a nice wireless mouse. There are wireless HDMI solutions I never looked to see if they support HDCP. Starting to sound like all you want to know is how to rip bluray discs.
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Thanks, yea, I was mistaking the HDMI bandwidth. But what you are saying makes complete sense.
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jamice4u said:
Thank all of you guys for your replies now that I know I am doing something that is technically impossible. I will forget about streaming blue rays on to my computer and just use my hdmi cable from my laptop to my T.V. set. I spent 3 hours researching on google trying to figure this out. One article claimed you could use windows media player to stream the dvds but I could never get window media player to show up on my network. The only thing that showed up was all share. The reason I wanted to do this is because I have a computer and laptop that are capable of playing blue ray and I did not want to spend and more money to duplicate something that my computers should be able to do. I also want to make my desktop computer my main media hub and my main back up service. Since I have a 2TB hard drive in this bad boy. Thanks again for all of your answers.
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The solution to your problem is easy. All you need is DVDFab HD Decrypter to rip the blu ray to your hard drive, and a program like StaxRip to encode it to h.264 MKV. Both programs are free and relatively easy to figure out. I rip all of my blu rays and store them on my HTPC, simply because I don't like shuffling disks, and I encode them videos keeping the HD audio intact, because my computer is able to bitstream HD Audio (DTS-HD MASTER or Dolby TrueHD) to my AVR. I have to warn you though, encoding a blu ray at very high quality takes a long time. I have an overclocked 6-core AMD Phenom II CPU running at 4.2 Ghz on water cooling, and a typical action movie can take as much as 15-20 hours to encode. But my rips are imperceptible from the original, quality-wise.

sputnik767 said:
Thanks, yea, I was mistaking the HDMI bandwidth. But what you are saying makes complete sense.
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Being 4:30 in the morning i did mess up on a couple things like I meant "Over 100 Mbps its still technically possible". But yeah now that we know he has a laptop I have to lol just a little. Good stuff.

Use a MHL adapter.. but doesnt work on aosp roms at the moment for ics.. cut the pc out all together..
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RainMotorsports said:
Being 4:30 in the morning i did mess up on a couple things like I meant "Over 100 Mbps its still technically possible". But yeah now that we know he has a laptop I have to lol just a little. Good stuff.
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Yea, lol, a blu-ray capable laptop makes things very easy. All he needs is an HDMI cable and something like PowerDVD to play the blu rays. He is asking about Windows Media Player, but that is unable to decode a blu-ray disk AFAIK. I'm pretty sure those codecs are still proprietary. I am not aware of any free software solution to play blu rays.

sputnik767 said:
Yea, lol, a blu-ray capable laptop makes things very easy. All he needs is an HDMI cable and something like PowerDVD to play the blu rays. He is asking about Windows Media Player, but that is unable to decode a blu-ray disk AFAIK. I'm pretty sure those codecs are still proprietary. I am not aware of any free software solution to play blu rays.
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They actually asked what windows media player, not windows media player itself. Pretty confusing I know. Since I am a failure at English I am not sure if there is any punctuation to fix that but. What media player for windows is the question they were originally asking. Not that it mattered the question itself was futile.

RainMotorsports said:
They actually asked what windows media player, not windows media player itself. Pretty confusing I know. Since I am a failure at English I am not sure if there is any punctuation to fix that but. What media player for windows is the question they were originally asking. Not that it mattered the question itself was futile.
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For blu rays, I am aware of 2 media players that can play them. PowerDVD and TotalMedia Theater. There may be more, but those are the 2 main ones. They are not free though, but that is because the codecs are still proprietary. I'm not sure if they will ever be open-source, but if that happens, just about every media player such as VLC or Media Player Classic will be able to decode and play blu rays. I use PowerDVD personally.

PowerDVD and TotalMedia Theater will play blu-rays. I use both AnyDVD HD (slysoft) and DVDFab HD Decrypter to rip to PC hard-drive. Rippers remove HDCP. Once ripped both Plex and Tversity can stream blu-rays. Also, the new VLC Player(free) that just came out can play and stream blu-rays as well. Plex streamer uses up 90% CPU on the PC when streaming and is most reliable at full 1080P. However, Tversity only uses 3% CPU when streaming has the best video quality and should be converted if streaming to E4GT. I use islysoft to convert to mp4 at both 800x480 on (4G or wifi) and 320x240 3G to my E4GT in motion in the car. http://dyn.com for $20 per year streams Tversity on PC to the E4GT on any android mobile browser or any browser. I use MX Player Pro on E4GT set to SW Fast when streaming from PC. Once in the blu-ray realm for quality and reliablity it does cost. Best free option is DVDFab HD Decrypter and VLC v2.0.1. Some Laptops only have VGA - in this case you need an up converter to digital HDMI 1080P.

I have both a laptop and a desktop. I use my desktop to stream because I have 2 TB of space on my desktop. My laptop is my work horse. It is the machine I use to get all my report done with. I don't want to eat up all of my hard drive space with a DVD's but maybe investing in an 2 TB or more external hard-drive might solve that problem in the future this would be a good solution because it would make my media portable. I have some cartoons, music and anime I currently stream from my desktop computer. How much hard-drive space does a typical blue ray movie takes up. My currently solution right now is to use a hdmi cable I also own FAB DVD as well.

jamice4u said:
I have both a laptop and a desktop. I use my desktop to stream because I have 2 TB of space on my desktop. My laptop is my work horse. It is the machine I use to get all my report done with. I don't want to eat up all of my hard drive space with a DVD's but maybe investing in an 2 TB or more external hard-drive might solve that problem in the future this would be a good solution because it would make my media portable. I have some cartoons, music and anime I currently stream from my desktop computer. How much hard-drive space does a typical blue ray movie takes up. My currently solution right now is to use a hdmi cable I also own FAB DVD as well.
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Blu-Rays are 28GB to 50GB depending the length of the movie. 40 to 65 Full Blu-Ray movies will fit in 2TB of storage. I have both Roku and Seagate Streamers. You can use Seagate Theater or Goflex streamer and the USB drive can be used to play ripped blu-rays in original format. However, the Seagate remote is not great. Roku can play ripped blu-rays streamed from your PC with the Plex media server on the PC and the Plex plug-in on Roku. However, Rokus USB input the movies need to be converted to mp4 only when played off USB harddrive. If you have Directv box Tversity v1.8 on PC can stream converted mp4 movies thru your directv box using media stream. The point is a good converter like iSkysoft to mp4 the universal format is a good investment.

of course you should try this
jamice4u said:
I am currently loving streaming my video content onto my Samsung T.V. which includes watching youtube onto my big screen T.V. from Samsung Epic Touch 4g. But now I want to stream my blue ray dvds onto my big screen t.v. I know XDA is full of knowledgeable tech geeks. Thank you for helping me out.
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of course, you should try this, I have used it for almost 2 years.it never had any problem。it plays blu ray on pc smoothly。when i bought it, to my surprise, it can change region code, thus i'm never worried about relaxing myself when on business. It's an easy to use and professional blu ray player software for windows， including Windows 8. of course, it fully integrates with Windows Media Center too. beyond your surprise, it's also a 3d video player. maybe you should try. believe me, it is satisfying

Can I stop Windows Media Player converting my mp3 & mp4 to wma?

Title says it all really. Whenever I transfer files to my phone using WMP under Win 7 it converts them all to WMA files which is pointless since the track order then becomes alphabetical not as the id3 tag lists it. My version of WMP (can't find a version number since there is no file menu) does not have an option uncheck convert files as necessary like some people say there is under the device name in the sync menu.
Does anyone know how to stop this horrible behaviour and let me keep my media as I want it not how MS want it?

I thought there was a way, at least as far as Win Media 11 goes. I rarely use it so I can't recall it off the top of my head.
The next easiest thing is to stop using Microsoft products to handle audio and music; WMP is bloated and so un-intuitive.
Try Winamp, it's got a little bloat but it's pretty simple and manageable.
itunes does it's job but like most apple products, it's made for right-brained, artistic and people who feel good about things. That's not me.
I use file explorer windows, ctrl +c & ctrl +v
Good luck

richard.tufty said:
Title says it all really. Whenever I transfer files to my phone using WMP under Win 7 it converts them all to WMA files which is pointless since the track order then becomes alphabetical not as the id3 tag lists it. My version of WMP (can't find a version number since there is no file menu) does not have an option uncheck convert files as necessary like some people say there is under the device name in the sync menu.
Does anyone know how to stop this horrible behaviour and let me keep my media as I want it not how MS want it?
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Why do you even use wmp to transfer mp3 to your phone? just make a folder on your sd card has music and mount your sd card to your computer and drap and drop you files.

Nuenjin said:
Try Winamp, it's got a little bloat but it's pretty simple and manageable.
Good luck
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I tried Winamp, but it lists 2 copies of each track on the phone after syncing. There is ony one on it, but Winamp list 2. Annoying, but not the end of the world!

dfuse06 said:
Why do you even use wmp to transfer mp3 to your phone? just make a folder on your sd card has music and mount your sd card to your computer and drap and drop you files.
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I use WMP because it sorts all my audio files out for me. I have many files that aren't in a very good filing system from years ago and basically I'm too lazy to sort them out into Album/Artist folders (they have proper id3 tags though) to make finding things easier. The newer stuff I have ripped is better, in many ways due to iTunes organising it when I had an iPhone...
Also I have lots of Audio Books and WMP allows me to create Auto Playlists which excludes those files. I bashed iTunes a lot when I *had* to use it, it was bloaty and only recognised my iPhone about 2 in 3 times on Windows, but no it's gone I kinda miss it!

Found a solution/workaround
If I turn on USB debugging, thus disabling MTP mode, WMP will give me the option to not convert files. It's not as convenient as MTP since you have to click connect, but that's a small price to pay I think.

WMP12 (which is what Win7 has) can change the rip settings by pressing the ALT key to reveal the menu and then going to Tools->Options and looking for the Devices tab. Check the properties to see what the settings are here.
Also, if you don't use WMA at all change the settings in the "Rip Music" tab to use a format other than WMA. Don't know if this will help but I generally recommend to people when you don't use the format.

This problem drives me crazy. Why does WMP convert MP3 files? With my Arc S WMP converts only parts of the files. If I change the preferred format in "default-capability.xml" from MP4 to MP3 it works, but not for all files. This is sick.
I don't wanna miss WMP because it converts to 128Kbit/s and saves some space on the SD-Card.

Daniel D. said:
This problem drives me crazy. Why does WMP convert MP3 files? With my Arc S WMP converts only parts of the files. If I change the preferred format in "default-capability.xml" from MP4 to MP3 it works, but not for all files. This is sick.
I don't wanna miss WMP because it converts to 128Kbit/s and saves some space on the SD-Card.
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This works for me...
Go to the SYNC menu, YOUR DEVICE, then
the ADVANCED OPTIONS. Click on the QUALITY tab and make sure the MUSIC option
is set to SELECT QUALITY LEVEL AUTOMATICALLY. If you choose any other quality level it will convert to .wma.
- tom

tomX2 said:
This works for me...
Go to the SYNC menu, YOUR DEVICE, then
the ADVANCED OPTIONS. Click on the QUALITY tab and make sure the MUSIC option
is set to SELECT QUALITY LEVEL AUTOMATICALLY. If you choose any other quality level it will convert to .wma.
- tom
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damn..how to make it work for videos.

You may try use Avdshare*Video*Converter to Convert MP4 to Windows Media Player more compatilbe video format like convert MP4 to WMV, MP4 to AVI, MP4 to MPG, MP4 to ASF.

PowerDVD Mobile

PowerDVD Mobile for Surface RT has been released
http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/app/e1dd130e-d240-4c57-947c-0809b0b93acf
I have been waiting for VLC for a long time because none of the multimedia player released for RT have satisfied me at all. Some do not play MKV and so far none of them have been able to play from my IOmega Multimedia Server.
PowerDVD did the trick.
Unfortunately is not perfect, it does not handle well subtitles and it's a big expensive but other than that I would recommend everybody to check the trial version.

thanks for the info,
can you tell me if the RT version of powerdvdmobile reads 3gp format ? (in my case, videos from my old smartphone)
rgds,
ph.

philippe75017 said:
thanks for the info,
can you tell me if the RT version of powerdvdmobile reads 3gp format ? (in my case, videos from my old smartphone)
rgds,
ph.
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-Ignore Me- Thought i was in windows 8 section not RT section. Won't let me delete my post now.

ctitanic said:
PowerDVD Mobile for Surface RT has been released
http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/app/e1dd130e-d240-4c57-947c-0809b0b93acf
I have been waiting for VLC for a long time because none of the multimedia player released for RT have satisfied me at all. Some do not play MKV and so far none of them have been able to play from my IOmega Multimedia Server.
PowerDVD did the trick.
Unfortunately is not perfect, it does not handle well subtitles and it's a big expensive but other than that I would recommend everybody to check the trial version.
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the app I use and works great with MKV files is MOBILE HD and isn't too expensive, even works great when streaming it off my homegroup! very happy with it! I suggest getting it.

external DVD player
hello,
can someone tell me if Powerdvd mobile for windows RT can read a DVD optical disc, using an USB external DVD player connected to RT computer (surface RT, surface 2...),
also specify the brand and model of your DVD player :angel:
many thanks.

philippe75017 said:
hello,
can someone tell me if Powerdvd mobile for windows RT can read a DVD optical disc, using an USB external DVD player connected to RT computer (surface RT, surface 2...),
also specify the brand and model of your DVD player :angel:
many thanks.
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Windows RT treats all optical media as a data disk. It cannot recognise audio or video disks, it just treats them as data instead, no media player I have tried seems capable of playing back DVD's when treated as data. Use VLC media player (or something else) to rip the DVD to another format on a full PC instead, it should be able to play those files.

SixSixSevenSeven said:
Windows RT treats all optical media as a data disk. It cannot recognise audio or video disks, it just treats them as data instead, no media player I have tried seems capable of playing back DVD's when treated as data. Use VLC media player (or something else) to rip the DVD to another format on a full PC instead, it should be able to play those files.
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hello,
contrary to an audio CD, a DVD is a data disk.
it would be interesting to check if Powerdvd for RT can read VOB files copied to surface's internal disk or SD card (using an unprotected DVD, at first), meaning, not depending of the DVD disk structure.

SixSixSevenSeven said:
Windows RT treats all optical media as a data disk. It cannot recognise audio or video disks, it just treats them as data instead, no media player I have tried seems capable of playing back DVD's when treated as data. Use VLC media player (or something else) to rip the DVD to another format on a full PC instead, it should be able to play those files.
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Sorry to butt in here. I've seen references to ripping DVDs with VLC in other places but have never found any directions. Can you point me in the right direction.
Thanks for everyone's patience. I realize this is off topic.

philippe75017 said:
hello,
contrary to an audio CD, a DVD is a data disk.
it would be interesting to check if Powerdvd for RT can read VOB files copied to surface's internal disk or SD card (using an unprotected DVD, at first), meaning, not depending of the DVD disk structure.
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Yes, it can if it's unprotected.

ctitanic said:
Yes, it can if it's unprotected.
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thank you ctitanic,
do you use powerDVD with RT ? are you happy with it ?
well, if you can plug a DVD drive and try to read it, your feedback is welcome
thx.

philippe75017 said:
thank you ctitanic,
do you use powerDVD with RT ? are you happy with it ?
well, if you can plug a DVD drive and try to read it, your feedback is welcome
thx.
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I'm happy with PowerDVD and I tested yesterday playing an unprotected DVD copied to my network. I don't have an USB external DVD to test it with but I think it can,

ctitanic said:
I'm happy with PowerDVD and I tested yesterday playing an unprotected DVD copied to my network. I don't have an USB external DVD to test it with but I think it can,
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thx,
1) DVD copied to network : did u just copy the VOB file or all the files & directories ?
2) USB drive : borrow a friend's one and tell us

philippe75017 said:
thx,
1) DVD copied to network : did u just copy the VOB file or all the files & directories ?
2) USB drive : borrow a friend's one and tell us
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1- Yes, I copy my DVDs to a NAS using a software called DVDFab
2- confirmed, it does not play commercial DVDs but it will play the unprotected copies.

ctitanic said:
1- Yes, I copy my DVDs to a NAS using a software called DVDFab
2- confirmed, it does not play commercial DVDs but it will play the unprotected copies.
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hello,
sorry, i'm a bit lost. if you use DVDFab, it is not a "copy", it is "ripping", is this correct ?
what do you mean by "unprotected copies" :
- DVD ripped and converted to mp4 file (or avi or whatever), you play the mp4 from your NAS
- DVD ripped without conversion : you play the VOB, IFO etc from your NAS
- DVD not ripped : just cut & paste the VOB you need to NAS
please specify how it does not play commercial DVD : ok, what happens exactly when you enter the DVD in the drive plugged to the surface ?
also, not all commercial DVDs are protected : old dvd's, cheap dvds like old cartoons for kids etc, have you tried with a drive ?
thank you

philippe75017 said:
thx,
1) DVD copied to network : did u just copy the VOB file or all the files & directories ?
2) USB drive : borrow a friend's one and tell us
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philippe75017 said:
hello,
sorry, i'm a bit lost. if you use DVDFab, it is not a "copy", it is "ripping", is this correct ?
what do you mean by "unprotected copies" :
- DVD ripped and converted to mp4 file (or avi or whatever), you play the mp4 from your NAS
- DVD ripped without conversion : you play the VOB, IFO etc from your NAS
- DVD not ripped : just cut & paste the VOB you need to NAS
please specify how it does not play commercial DVD : ok, what happens exactly when you enter the DVD in the drive plugged to the surface ?
also, not all commercial DVDs are protected : old dvd's, cheap dvds like old cartoons for kids etc, have you tried with a drive ?
thank you
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Ripped DVD means unprotected. It doesn't matter if you convert or not. A Ripped DVD without converting it, just copied to my NAS plays.
A Commercial DVD in an external USB DVD player doesn't play. It doesn't matter if you copy the vob files to a NAS because they were not ripped so the copy protection still there.